Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - (Page 27) AUGUST 4, 2008 • 27 U.S. light-vehicle sales – continued July 2008 July 2007 7 mos. 2008 7 mos. 2007 Boxster (I) 543 911 Carrera/Carrera 4 (I) 1,075 911 Carrera GT (I) – Cayman (I) 552 Total Porsche car (I) 2,170 Porsche truck Cayenne (I) 958 PORSCHE 3,128 Baja – Forester (I) 5,559 Impreza (I) 4,430 Legacy 5,494 Total Subaru car 15,483 Subaru truck Tribeca 788 Subaru domestic 6,282 Subaru import 9,989 SUBARU 16,271 Aerio/SX4 (I) 2,596 Forenza/Reno (I) 2,439 Verona (I) – Total Suzuki car (I) 5,035 Grand Vitara (I) 1,256 Vitara – XL-7/XL7 (D/I) 1,812 Total Suzuki truck 3,068 Suzuki domestic 1,812 Suzuki import 6,291 SUZUKI 8,103 S-Type (I) 29 X-Type (I) 11 XF (I) 947 XJ (I) 163 XK (I) 284 Total Jaguar car (I) 1,434 Freelander (I) – LR2 (I) 433 LR3 (I) 327 Range Rover (I) 490 Range Rover Sport (I) 792 Total Land Rover truck (I) 2,042 TATA MOTORS† 3,476 ES (I) 5,563 GS (I) 1,297 IS (I) 4,750 LS (I) 1,466 SC (I) 143 Total Lexus car (I) 13,219 GX (I) 1,019 LX (I) 843 RX 7,101 Total Lexus truck 8,963 Total Lexus 22,182 tC (I) 4,787 xA (I) – xB (I) 5,081 xD (I) 2,038 Total Scion car (I) 11,906 Avalon 3,000 Camry (D/I) 42,131 Corolla/Matrix (D/I) 34,438 Echo (I) – Prius (I) 14,785 Yaris (I) 8,620 Total Toyota Division car 102,974 4Runner (I) 3,107 FJ Cruiser (I) 1,577 Highlander (I) 6,763 Land Cruiser (I) 285 RAV4 (I) 12,006 Sequoia 2,823 Sienna 8,726 Tacoma 11,662 Tundra 13,413 Total Toyota Division truck 60,362 Total Toyota Division 163,336 Total Toyota Motor Sales car 128,099 Total Toyota Motor Sales truck 69,325 Toyota Motor Sales domestic 109,992 Toyota Motor Sales import 87,432 TOYOTA MOTOR SALES 197,424 A3 (I) 646 A4/S4 (I) 3,479 A5/S5 (I) 394 A6/S6 (I) 929 A8/S8 (I) 205 R8 (I) 50 TT (I) 300 Total Audi car (I) 6,003 Audi truck Q7 (I) 801 Total Audi (I) 6,804 Bentley car (I) 195 Eos (I) 1,363 Golf/GTI/R32 (I) 1,853 Jetta 9,245 New Beetle 2,718 Passat (I) 1,977 Phaeton (I) – Rabbit (I) 2,036 Total VW division car 19,192 Tiguan (I) 846 Touareg (I) 404 Total VW division truck (I) 1,250 Total VW division 20,442 Total VW Group of America car 25,390 Total VW Group of America truck 2,051 VW Group of America domestic 11,963 VW Group of America import 15,478 VW GROUP OF AMERICA 27,441 Domestic car 407,373 Import car 237,185 Total U.S. car 644,558 Domestic light truck 410,884 Import light truck 81,097 Total U.S. light truck 491,981 Total domestic light vehicle 818,257 Total import light vehicle 318,282 TOTAL U.S. LIGHT VEHICLE 1,136,539 411 1,030 – 640 2,081 1,149 3,230 45 3,678 3,713 6,322 13,758 1,680 8,047 7,391 15,438 1,102 3,735 1 4,838 1,361 1 1,743 3,105 1,744 6,199 7,943 301 247 – 290 298 – – 935 865 1,072 1,317 – – 6,909 1,954 4,892 2,696 304 16,755 1,767 206 8,413 10,386 27,141 6,229 338 5,073 – 11,640 5,092 41,514 29,719 – 16,062 8,126 100,513 6,676 4,128 8,858 163 14,494 1,733 11,599 13,963 23,150 84,764 185,277 128,908 95,150 126,201 97,857 224,058 495 3,497 – 815 201 – 458 5,466 1,661 7,127 271 1,189 1,271 8,057 2,819 3,218 – 2,521 19,075 – 578 578 19,653 24,812 2,239 10,876 16,175 27,051 438,200 208,082 646,282 555,382 107,471 662,853 993,582 315,553 1,309,135 2,183 5,724 – 2,861 10,768 7,446 18,214 1 33,128 27,973 41,800 102,902 7,464 49,265 61,101 110,366 20,680 16,303 2 36,985 8,477 – 18,889 27,366 18,885 45,466 64,351 817 410 5,270 1,514 1,804 2,794 – 3,814 2,780 4,775 7,165 4,242 7,036 38,719 10,356 31,010 13,020 1,373 94,478 9,783 5,021 49,611 64,415 158,893 28,517 39 31,007 18,217 77,780 27,438 282,012 228,926 – 106,225 73,300 717,901 30,228 18,239 68,152 2,772 83,522 19,367 74,996 95,730 89,929 482,935 1,200,836 890,159 547,350 807,482 630,027 1,437,509 3,015 26,770 2,754 6,653 1,633 365 2,825 44,015 7,812 51,827 1,823 9,629 10,428 55,633 17,799 21,769 – 13,831 129,089 2,569 4,308 6,877 135,966 174,927 14,689 73,432 116,184 189,616 3,088,519 1,545,305 4,633,824 3,275,898 641,116 3,917,014 6,364,417 2,186,421 8,550,838 2,284 8,021 4 3,691 14,000 7,089 21,089 1,098 26,290 24,735 44,600 96,723 8,869 54,567 51,025 105,592 9,246 28,259 300 37,805 12,351 1 15,274 27,626 14,821 50,610 65,431 2,305 1,939 – 2,500 2,853 – 1 4,358 7,134 6,610 8,928 – – 47,307 13,122 32,568 20,268 2,400 115,665 12,273 1,751 57,654 71,678 187,343 39,779 9,204 23,661 – 72,644 42,614 282,044 231,940 4 110,565 54,648 721,815 50,870 33,882 73,607 1,408 101,618 14,582 84,948 106,425 105,990 573,330 1,295,145 910,124 645,008 840,827 714,305 1,555,132 3,941 25,205 – 6,829 2,119 – 2,110 40,204 12,634 52,838 2,527 7,814 9,062 58,030 17,997 22,326 17 14,679 129,925 – 4,608 4,608 134,533 172,656 17,242 76,027 113,871 189,898 3,239,500 1,465,399 4,704,899 4,086,148 766,775 4,852,923 7,325,648 2,232,174 9,557,822 Best sales news: July is over John K. Teahen Jr. jteahen@crain.com More tables ➤ 25 news ANALYSIS Another month, another horror story. Last month, automakers sold an anemic 1,136,539 new cars and light trucks in the United States. That was down a distressing 13.2 percent from last year’s 1,309,135 sales. It was the worst month since January. In the first seven months of 2008, U.S. vehicle sales totaled 8,550,838 units, down 10.5 percent from 2007. In July, the Detroit 3 had 42.7 percent of the U.S. market — their lowest share ever. Their share was 45.8 percent in June and 48.1 percent in July 2007. The market share of General Motors’ domestic brands shrank to 20.4 percent in July, down 3.5 points from July 2007. Chrysler LLC had only 8.6 percent, a loss of 1.9 points. Ford Motor’s domestic brands had 13.7 percent, unchanged from last year. Cars accounted for 56.7 percent of U.S. new-vehicle sales last month. But cars made up only 41.5 percent of Detroit 3 sales. By contrast, trucks accounted for 43.3 percent of industry sales, but the Detroit 3 counted on them for 58.5 percent of their volume. July sales of the Chevy Malibu gave General Motors reason to think twice about the industry’s headlong rush to small cars. The redesigned mid-sized Malibu, above, posted a sales gain of 78.6 percent over the old Malibu’s performance in July 2007 and is up 37.0 percent for the year. Perspective How the past 5 Julys rank for U.S. light-vehicle sales 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 2005 2004 2006 2007 2008 1,808,206 1,556,311 1,493,400 1,309,135 1,136,539 2007 GM bad, Chrysler worse July sales of the Chevrolet Malibu gave GM reason to think twice about the industry’s headlong rush to small cars. The redesigned mid-sized Malibu posted a sales gain of 78.6 percent over the old Malibu’s performance in July 2007 and is up 37.0 percent for the year. Smaller Chevrolet cars couldn’t approach the Malibu, in terms of percentage increase. The Aveo posted a gain of 16.9 percent, and the Cobalt was up 3.5 percent. No other Chevrolet nameplate showed an increase. Total Chevrolet sales were down 24.8 percent in July. Overall, GM’s domestic sales slumped 26.0 percent last month — an 11.4 percent loss for cars and a paralyzing 36.4 percent collapse for trucks. The Buick Enclave crossover was the only GM truck to notch a July sales increase. Notable decliners included two full-sized pickups: the Chevrolet Silverado, down 29.8 percent, and the GMC Sierra, down 27.0 percent. Sales of the Chevrolet TrailBlazer SUV plunged 72.8 percent. How the mighty truck has fallen. GM’s domestic cars almost outsold trucks in July. The trucks led by just 850 units. In July 2007, trucks outsold cars by 52,449 units. Last month, Chrysler LLC’s sales performance was even worse than GM’s. Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep deliveries plunged 28.8 percent below last year’s sales. The company’s cars and trucks suffered about equally. Car sales dropped 28.2 percent; truck sales, 29.0 percent. The only Chrysler LLC nameplate to post a significant sales upturn in July was the Chrysler Town & Country minivan, which jumped 23.9 percent. Dodge fared best of the company’s three brands. Still, it was down 17.0 percent for the month. Chrysler brand sales fell 39.8 percent, and Jeep lost 39.2 percent. Ford Motor Co.’s domestic makes 14 12 10 Source: Automotive News Data Center and company sources J M M J J S O N took a year-to-year sales beating of 13.0 percent in July. But, surprisingly, the company’s new-car sales rose 7.8 percent for the month. The Ford Focus and Fusion and the new Lincoln MKS did the work. Focus sales — the company’s chief bragging point — jumped 15.6 percent in July. That was less than the 26.2 percent gain that the Focus has posted for the year, but the blame goes to short supply, not lack of demand. Last month the new Lincoln MKS chalked up 2,279 sales, more than double the 1,079 sales rung up in July 2007 by the Town Car, which the MKS essentially replaced as Lincoln’s high-end retail model. Otherwise, it was bad news for the Ford brand. The F-series pickup, the industry’s best-selling nameplate as recently as a few months ago, was down 20.6 percent in July. And even that plunge looked mild compared with SUV sales: The Ford Explorer took a bath of 51.8 percent. The larger Expedition took an even larger pounding, down 57.5 percent. Nissan bucks trend Nissan North America Inc. was the only one of the six largest automakers to record a sales gain for the month — and it did so with a truck. The big difference was the new Nissan Rogue crossover, which wasn’t in the stable at this time last year. Nissan’s big Titan pickup endured the same fate as everyone else’s big trucks, plunging 30.4 percent in July. The Nissan Armada SUV fell 23.4 percent, but the small Frontier pickup was up 24.3 percent. Nissan’s best-selling Altima held steady, down just 35 units from last †Ford Motor Co. sold Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors on June 2, 2008; Jaguar and Land Rover model sales through May 2008 are included with Tata Motors for comparison purposes only. Note: (D) = produced in North America; (I) = imported to U.S. Source: Automotive News Data Center and company sources For an expanded version of this table, go to www.autonews.com/datacenter year. Sales of the small Sentra jumped 16.0 percent, and the even smaller Ve http://www.autonews.com/datacenter
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Automotive News - August 4, 2008 Automotive News - August 4, 2008 Losing leases: It hurts already Crisis at Chrysler: Buyers bail GM's really bad news: Its revenue Lincoln reworks bonus plan for dealers Pain spreads beyond Detroit: Nissan offers employee buyouts Mitsubishi changes dealer advisory board GM repeats employee discount program Ford merges brands' sales, marketing After 5 funky years, Toyota's Scion now finds itself in a funk It's a body, er, a bus by Fisher At Tech Center, form follows function Industry nemesis again turns up heat on climate Right products, diverse customers raise suppliers' profits Last-minute leases swamp Chrysler With leases off the table, Chrysler offers new sales incentives GM favors 4 endorsed vendors of dealer management systems GKN to supply F-150 FX4's differential For sale: 2 Metaldyne plants 1 week's notice: Chrysler dealers deserved better Get used to the roller coaster That 1934 Reo had a clutch pedal We sell what the public wants Decision makers can't use hindsight Detroit's truck trauma is self-inflicted Why won't consumers buy Detroit cars? Speaking of ads, don't overlook VW Software helps dealers manage parts Service survey: Customer satisfaction rises Researcher: Vehicles can prevent crashes Personnel Microsoft will offer Live Search Dealers Picture This Nissan offers buyouts to its Tenn. workers Lincoln-Mercury exec joins Kia Kaline out at Ford Penske earnings drop slightly Asbury will move; profits slip S&P downgrades American Axle Best sales news: July is over Now THAT'S resale value ... Sirius-XM satellite radio deal: A mixed bag Don't be misled by Chery's sales; it's a key player McCurdy applies some political (tire) pressure A star is born: The saga of the shrinking sticker Our flag is still there Obama-mobile? Or McCain-carrier? Automotive News - August 4, 2008 Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - (Page Intro) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - GM's really bad news: Its revenue (Page 1) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - GM's really bad news: Its revenue (Page 2) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Ford merges brands' sales, marketing (Page 3) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - After 5 funky years, Toyota's Scion now finds itself in a funk (Page 4) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - After 5 funky years, Toyota's Scion now finds itself in a funk (Page 5) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Right products, diverse customers raise suppliers' profits (Page 6) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Right products, diverse customers raise suppliers' profits (Page 7) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - With leases off the table, Chrysler offers new sales incentives (Page 8) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - With leases off the table, Chrysler offers new sales incentives (Page 9) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - For sale: 2 Metaldyne plants (Page 10) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - For sale: 2 Metaldyne plants (Page 11) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Decision makers can't use hindsight (Page 12) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Decision makers can't use hindsight (Page 13) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Speaking of ads, don't overlook VW (Page 14) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Service survey: Customer satisfaction rises (Page 15) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Personnel (Page 16) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Dealers (Page 17) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Dealers (Page 18) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Picture This (Page 19) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Picture This (Page 20) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Picture This (Page 21) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Picture This (Page 22) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Picture This (Page 23) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Nissan offers buyouts to its Tenn. workers (Page 24) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - S&P downgrades American Axle (Page 25) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - S&P downgrades American Axle (Page 26) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Best sales news: July is over (Page 27) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Best sales news: July is over (Page 28) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Best sales news: July is over (Page 29) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Obama-mobile? Or McCain-carrier? (Page 30) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Obama-mobile? Or McCain-carrier? (Page 31) Automotive News - August 4, 2008 - Obama-mobile? Or McCain-carrier? (Page 32)
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